Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 612

ping output. The second-to-last line contains information about number of transmitted
packets, packet loss, and total time of ping running.
As the destination, you can use a hostname or IP address, for example,
ping example.com or ping 130.57.5.75. The program sends packets until
you press
If you only need to check the functionality of the connection, you can limit the number
of the packets with the -c option. For example to limit ping to three packets, enter
ping -c 3 192.168.0.
Example 31.10 Output of the Command ping
ping -c 3 example.com
ms
ms
ms
The default interval between two packets is one second. To change the interval, ping
provides option -i. For example to increase ping interval to ten seconds, enter ping -i
10 192.168.0.
In a system with multiple network devices, it is sometimes useful to send the ping
through a specific interface address. To do so, use the -I option with the name of the
selected device, for example, ping -I wlan1 192.168.0.
For more options and information about using ping, enter ping -h or see the ping
(8) man page.
Configuring the Network with ifconfig
ifconfig is a traditional network configuration tool. In contrast to ip, you can use it
only for interface configuration. If you want to configure routing, use route.
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PING example.com (130.57.5.75) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from example.com (130.57.5.75): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=188
64 bytes from example.com (130.57.5.75): icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=184
64 bytes from example.com (130.57.5.75): icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=183
--- example.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2007ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 183.417/185.447/188.259/2.052 ms